Saturday

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The day of the week between Friday and Sunday.

   We usually go shopping on Saturday morning.

2. 2
   adv

   On Saturday.

   They are coming to visit us Saturday.

From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).

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